League expectations are up

Each club receives an expectation based on last season's position, squad strength and club infrastructure (cash left over and size of stadium). Since everything is almost identical, we pretty much only have squad strength to go on. I tallied each team's total primary skills and divided them by the amount of players, to make the rankings for this season and came up with the following:

Position

Team

Primary Skill Average

1st

Chelsea

16.10

2nd

Arsenal

15.98

3rd

Manchester City

15.86

4th

Manchester United

15.83

5th

Tottenham Hotspur

15.60

6th

Newcastle United

15.42

7th

Liverpool

15.36

8th

Fulham

15.29

9th

Everton

14.83

10th

Crystal Palace

14.29

Averages may change if there needs to be last-minute changes to ratings but I'm fairly happy with how it turned out. I think the main reason that Arsenal is 2nd is because of guys like Oxlade-Chamberlain, Chamakh and Vela, who are 16-rated but have to be turfed to the reserve squad, so it creates extra depth and a higher average rating than some would expect.